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they're all fakes, don't click on it and they say to avoid the virus, simply take sensible steps, that means that don't click on any unsolicited e-mails or linked to any unfamiliar websites. good news to report as six louisiana boy scouts are safe and sound this morning after a national guard crew rescued them in a helicopter. the scouts were camping in an arkansas wilderness area near where 20 people actually died in flash floods last summer. abc's larry jacobs reports on how the drama unfolded. >> reporter: the raging and flooded river put the six boy scouts and their leaders' survival skills to work. because the rushing river was too dangerous to cross. >> they did exactly what they need dod. they hunkered down, waited it out. >> reporter: the campers stayed near a mountain they could climb. the flood waters quickly rose. it was not far from here last summer that flash floods killed 20 campers but those scouts knew
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where to go in case conditions changed. >> we don't mind being cold, we don't mind being wet. we don't want to be cold and wet, so that was probably our biggest challenge. >> we the ability to create fresh water. we had food. we had shelter. we had everything we needed. so it's just a matter of waiting mother nature out. she came in a little early, and put us a little late. >> reporter: an arkansas national guard helicopter crew spotted them in the darkness monday night. >> went to the area that they thought that campers were, we flew a ridge line, and the campers stuck to the edge of the river with their flashlights and started flashing their lights. >> reporter: so at daybreak tuesday the pilot knew right where to fly after a challenging landing in the thick forest, the campers were ready to get out. >> the real sigh of relief comes when you make contact and gives a thulbs up. >> reporter: was a happy ending to their camping adventure as the worried parents could not wait to get their boys home to
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louisiana. larry jacobs, abc news. >> good for those guys. our first no-hitter of the major league baseball season. francisco liriano of the twins releadf lied some clutch defense to close a 1-2-3 pitch masterpiece last night. walked six and the first complete game in five major league starts. liriano called a crazy night and night. so we offer him congrats. you don't see a lot of those. but when they come around it's such a good feeling. >> it is pretty cool and season is in full swing now. lots of games going to. >> it makes baseball a little less boring. sorry. >> nice weather though, it would help things out. forecast now. rainy day from the carolinas to new york and new england. showers in florida and from montana to minnesota. light snow in the northern rockies and the southwest continues to heat up. >> nearly 100 in phoenix. 60s from fargo to minneapolis. 71 in kansas city. 66 in minneapolis. mostly 50s in the northeast.
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and 70s from dallas to new orleans. >> new orleans. >> new orleans. >> you can say is that way because you lived there. >> that's right. it looks like the first lady michelle obama has all of the right moves to back up her fight to child obesity. >> breaking it down. the first lady challenged her inner beyonce yesterday. the routine choreographed for her let's move campaign and also included the dance craze, the dougie. mrs. obama had no trouble keeping in step. you go, first lady. >> she looks good. she is fit. it was all part of a four-minute flash dance simultaneously put on middle schools across the country. take it away. we'll be right back, everyone with more of "world news now." you go next if you had a hd hoveround power chair? the statue of liberty? the grand canyon? it's all possible ith a hoveround., tom: hi i'm tom kruse, inventor rand founder of hoveround., when we say you're free to see the world, we mean it.
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it was a special evening last night at new york citifield, where the first baseball game was played in new york since laladosama bin laden mastermind behind the twin towers were killed. a marine corps veteran sang "god bless america" during the seventh inning stretch. there are many questions about the elite navy s.e.a.l. team that took down osama bin laden. questions that actually may never be answered. >> they're simply the best of the best in this nation's military, but when it comes to who they are, that is as you can imagine is classified. chris cuomo, though, his more. >> reporter: the dogs of war were finally turned loose designed to do what they are to do. >> reporter: do anything, whether sea, air, or land. that's what s.e.a.l. stands for. >> it's a self-contained unit that can go anyplace in the world and literally do nothing
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but kick ass. >> reporter: a superhero has nothing on these guys. recruits are trained to swim 350 feet under water with their hands and feet bound. they're taught to survive in arctic conditions, even submerging in freezing water. they also have to endure exposure to tear gas. only men ranging in age 26 to 33 try out to become one of the 2,500 s.e.a.l.s. training takes two years. 75% don't make it through. even if they do, they need years more experience in the field to oven be considered for the elite squad that double tapped bin laden, team six. >> by the time that you get to six, you will either overcome any weak points that you have any any of those zps or wash out and say that you're a good s.e.a.l. but not good enough for this. >> reporter: and marco cinco would know. he started team six in 1980. on missions, they may jump from a plane 11 miles up, sit in deadly silence trained to
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camouflage themselves to any environment. or hold their breath under water for over two minutes without releasing a single bubble. and of course, they can shoot with pinpoint precision. for example, they rescued sailors from the alabama meresque taking out pirates. from 120 feet away in the dark. >> over the forehead for the brain matter or their heart. >> reporter: but for all of their physical abilities what marcinco says what sets a s.e.a.l. apart, their most deadly weapon is their mind. >> the body's only tissue. the brain controls it and the brain will push them beyond what you and i and normal people think the body can take. >> reporter: we keep comparing them to superheroes but they're different from superheroes in a very important way, they're subtle. they're known for their reserve and unassuming manner. that hey carry out their missions with calm. why? well, a big reason, is so that
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the enemy doesn't know what it is up against until it is too late. chris cuom oabc news, new york. >> that is just amazing. really incredible. of course we probably won't hear who these people were who took out osama bin laden because of that very reason, privacy and security. >> like deep throat, whoever comes out, 30 years from now. >> but heroes. >> hats off. more when we come back. stay with us, everybody.
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welcome back to "world news now," everybody. let's face it, we're all guilty of it, texting over dinner, surflg the net when we are supposed to be working -- i never do that. but how do you know if you just using technology as opposed to becoming addicted to it?
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our tech contributor daniel sieberg is out with a new book. "the digital diet" and he's here to help us learn all how to power down. it's finally good to see you face to face. we certainly know your pieces. >> you too, rob. i would love to talk more but i have to finish this e-mail. it's crazy. >> i will give you a minute. >> get back to it. >> the book is fascinating. i lot of topic. how big of a problem do you really think it is. >> i think that it's pretty pervasive and a spectrum that we're talking about here. you know on the one end of the scale there are people who are totally addicted to their gadgets, can't put them down, it's harming their lives. on the other end, there are people who really don't think about this stuff. they're not interested in new technology, and some in the middle are the rest of us, grappling with in stuff, trying to find a way to fit it into our lives and overwhelmed in many cases. >> and, again, just really have changed the way we lived. they've changed the way that we communicate. how do you know, though, if you're into it or if you have a problem and you are truly addicted. >> i use the word "addiction" in the title.
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and sometimes the word adiksz gets overused. we say that we're addicted to coffee, we're addicted to playing scrabble but true addictions that we're talking about. and here in the community a passionate debate about whether tech addiction is a legitimate diagnoses. and they are quite split down the middle on this. i would say for me that i was trending towards being obsessed and certainly close to addiction. i think what that means really is it gets in the way of other things. if you can't find the balance. that people around you are concerned that you can't focus on thing that they only eat top of your head because you're always down typing on thing. that's when it starts to become a problem. >> and talk about your four-step plan for kind of weaning yourself off of the tech stuff. >> a 28-day plan within those four steps but basically the first part of it is to rethink. so that's just to step back, get some perspective and then -- and then reboot. which is all about a little bit of a detox.
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a day or two here where you put the gadgets away and get distance from everything and then it is about reconnect which is about finding those people in your lives that you haven't been out with on a coffee date or the family member who've you've been texting from your bedroom instead of coming down and having a conversation. and then it is about revitalizing, so incorporating some technology. because i love technology. most my life that i can remember i've loved technology, but i want people to feel that way about it. not feel like they want to put it in a blender and so it's about incorporating the right technology. like to call it, outsourcing self-control. so sometimes it is apps that will help you, not text while driving. >> that makes sense. you make a good point, we have to pick human quality time over time with facebook, time with twitter. time with the laptop and that's a big part of it. and remembering the people around you and spend face-to-face time as opposed to texting. >> exactly. we forget that there are real people at the other end of the social networks and i for one, i got caught into that. i began to sculpting my
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identity. i had this alter ego that i was happier with than the real me which is vang. >> quick tips here. you talk about putting gadgets in the fridge during dinner? >> yes, yes. a great tip for families. if you're sitting there with these screens and can't talk. put them in the refrigerator and serve them as descerserts. >> tech terds. >> throwing it out on the table and when we're both out having dinner and stuff like that. it ends up being a distraction. rob, that was an interesting thing that you just said. and i pick up my device, it's horrible. >> don't sleep it next to you. >> charge your phone except anywhere but in your bed. survive that 45 seconds to a minute that you have to go and get your device and give yourself a little baste break from all of the technology. >> great advice and thank you so much for being here. we appreciate it. good luck with the book and good advice for us tech addicts out there for sure.
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>> announcer: "world news now" delivers your morning papers. the two of you. >> the real show happens during the commercial. >> ain't that the truth. >> ain't that the truth. >> talking about some headlines. >> i thought this was very interesting. a story in "the new york times" about the first time in 20 years the number of homes in the u.s. with a television sets' actually dropped, first time in two deck fraz 98.9% to 96.7%. >> we are going to get new grabs. >> no kidding and they're saying the reason, twofold. number one, obviously, economic tough times. people cannot afford some the tvs anymore. number two, people are watching tvs on their laptops, on
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internet. it's a different era. tvs the dominant median. >> and by the way you can't throw away your tv on the sidewalk. like takes seven people to move it and put to the curb. fyi. >> turn it on "world news now." more job security. because you all -- a lot of dirty minds this, this newsroom. a cuban cigar roller who has beaten his own world record for the world's longeststogie. measures about 268 feet. he built this thing on april 25th. tourism industry event out there. 2001 he did one 36 feet long, you would think that would be enough but no he wanted 268 feet and now he's broken his own world record. >> raise your hand if you don't think that looks like a cigar. >> what do you think that it looks like? >> it looks disgusting. >> why? >> can we talk about leggings. >> i don't know what you are thinking, mr. president. >> my goodness that looks gross.
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so by the way, leggings, ladies love them,a guys love them sometimes, too. leggings are great but here is the thing. saying now, a new study, says that leggings actually make you fat because -- there's some leggings right there. she's pulling it off pretty well. they say that leggings make your muscles lazy and make your stomach flabby. because they hold them in. >> that's what you like about it. sucks it all up, right. >> right, it sucks them in. getting ready for summertime and find out that there are months of flabbiness. maternity leggings, by the way, are the best. i still wear them. twins are six months old and i still wear them. >> we do have special news right now here on "world news now." we're actually celebrating for one of our producers here, david myers. walking down the aisle. >> this weekend. >> with his beautiful fiancee, katie. round of applause for david. congrats to david. and his beautiful bride-to-be
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katie. >> and this song that you're
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this monk morning on "world news now," the secret life of osama bin laden. what we're learning from the exclusive videotape shot inside the terrorist hideout? and how his mysterious compound has become an instant tourist attraction. it is wednesday, may 4th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> and good morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> and i'm peggy bunker. we will get the very latest from the white house on whether bin laden's bloody pictures should be released. we'll also hear the vice president's first public comments since the takedown and find out why former president george w. bush turned down an invitation to visit ground zero. >> that's right president obama will be here in new york tomorrow. also ahead on this half hour, a
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military mother's intense pride. her son is on board that navy ship where bin laden's body was taken and buried at sea. a true story of patriotism. >> wasn't the country feeling intense pride for our military. so impress wife their skill. also coming up later, a controversial way to lose weight. surgeons are now get this, implanting tiny -- on tongues. am i doing the 17-day diet for no reason? could i put the patch on the tongue? >> come on, man. the patch on the tongue? can we just go to the gym and eat right? is that crazy or what. >> maybe something to it, we will find out. >> we'll see, all right, but before all of that, we are learning dramatic new details about the life of osama bin laden led in the days before his death. >> are there new questions about how much pakistani officials really knew about the terror leader in their midst. nick schifrin reports now from abbottabad. >> reporter: when you tack a very close look at the video, it offers tantalizing hints about how the world's most wanted man
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lived. look at this medicine shelf, most likely in bin laden's own room. we froze it and enhanced it. that's petroleum jelly on the left. eyedrops right next to it. this one an antiseptic cream for cuts. and the box, we couldn't read the writing so we went to a local pharmacist and showed him the image. do you have one of these. >> yes we have. >> reporter: he pulled out same blue box. >> what is this? >> a nasal spray. >> nasal spray. >> yeah. >> reporter: it's only a quick glimpse of one part of the house which there appear to be no serious medicines. despite years of rumors about bin laden's poor health. outside the house, we found evidence of what the bin laden's ates. two cancof imported olive oil. two cans of local sunflower oil. and in the pantry, it's hard to see, but brightning the video reveals enough food to sustain a family for weeks including dozens of eggs. bin laden never had to leave.
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always protected by 15--foot-high walls. outside those walls the compound became a tourist attraction. hundreds of kids came out. some found remnants the u.s. helicopter that was left behind and scuttled. with these fields to my left you really got a sense of how imposing this boundary wall is when which is much higher than any of the other walls around it. these people around this neighborhood have an anecdote that whenever the children in this neighborhood were playing with one of the balls and one of the balls went over one of these walls it was never returned. sometimes the kids were paid money and told to go away. but in the end, those walls here in this city failed to contain their secret, that the world's most wanted man was living inside. nick schifrin, abc news, abbottabad, pakistan. >> an amazing look inside. neighbors say the two pakistanis who helped hide bin laden kept that compound with coke and
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pepsi. a shopkeeper says always bought enough food for ten people and suspicious of all of those large orders he says he was simply too polite to ask why. also learned new details about the operation that took bin laden down. it was called "operation neptune spear" and the mission was very clear, to capture or kill the al qaeda leader. as the navy s.e.a.l. team landed gunfire quickly erupted and continued throughout the operation. we now know that bin laden's wife was not armed. she was actually shot in the leg. last night vice president biden spoke about it all for the first time. >> we know brave professionals who trapped and killed osama bin laden. it was just a -- it was actually breathtaking. it was a staggering undertaking. and there are no one else i believe other than an american gro group, military wars who are rin
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do it. and the world is safer snydone of the lasting images of the entire episode. take a look at this. biden there in the white house situation room on sunday. we now know that he was holding a ring of rosary beads at the time. >> prayers paid off, huh. former president george w. bush will not join president obama during a visit to ground zero set for tomorrow. bush's office released a statement last night saying, in part that he appreciated the invite but has chose nen his postpresidency to remain out of the spotlight. and now president obama is getting a significant bump in the polls for his handling of the job in afghanistan. the new "washington post"/pew research center poll taken hours after bin laden's death. on top of that, 69% those polled now approve of the way that he's handling terrorism and that's the highest it's been since mr.
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obama took office? >> and the administration is still considering whether to release gruesome photoffice bin laden taken after his death. but head of the cia says that there is no question such a photo will eventually be made public and some on capitol hill agree. >> it's fair to say that it's a gruesome photograph. >> the photos have to be released most definitely to get rid of any conspiracy theorives that we didn't take care of bin laden. >> and now but others in the administration argue that releasing the images so soon after bin laden's death would stir up some more anti-american feelings in the arab world. as we've reported bin laden's body of course was buried at sea after being flown to the aircraft carrier "the uss carl vinson." has been on board and spoke to sailors and spoke to a proud parent. >> reporter: on board the "uss carl vinson," we saw there were more than a few texans keeping the massive aircraft carrier going. among them 24-year-old grandbury
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native stephen haas inspired to join up by bin laden and al qaeda. >> what they did, feel more patriotic after 9/11 so i got the chance to enlist in the navy. i did it. >> reporter: he was on the ship this weekend when bin laden's body was brought on board and then buried at sea. >> i thought it was pretty awesome. >> reporter: cara succson has three sons in the military. have both been in the navy for six years. so you think that he got to say good-bye to osama? >> i hop he did. >> reporter: a third son richard joined the army right after 9/11. >> he wanted to fight the terrorists. he's gone into iraq twice. >> reporter: for this mom bin laden's death feels a lot like mission accomplished. >> i'm waiting for my boys to get home. >> reporter: but it's not likely soon. richard is probably headed to afghanistan, while the twins have decided to make the navy a career. >> the boys, they're doing their duty. i'm very proud of them.
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it's just been terrifying sometimes. >> and that is gary reeves reporting from dallas-ft. worth. stay with abc news throughout morning and also throughout the day later on "america this morning" and "good morning america." and the president is still getting high praise from republicans on the bin laden raid. possible presidential candidate mitt romney said mr. obama deserved credit for approving that high-risk mission and romney said whether it improves obama's approval ratings is really besides the point. romney told reporters in new hampshire, quote, the right thing is that we got the bad guy. and less than a week after his sons wedding prince charles is in washington, d.c. his first trip to the u.s. in nearly four years. the prince paid a visit to the supreme court and also toured in urban farm. he is set to meet president obama later today and hopefully the lack of a royal wedding invite for the president won't make things too awkward, as you can say awkward moments.
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>> i think that the president is probably -- >> he's over it. >> yeah. dramatic rescue in the arkansas wilderness has brought a group of missing scouts back to safety. you were that rescued yesterday morning arch a national guard helicopter. the group of six scouts and their two leaders had gotten cut off by rain-swollen rivers. they said they were never in any danger and had enjoyed their meals of jam balia and grits around a campfire. it sounds good. service -- i'm sorry, severe weather stayed at the vacation paradays of hawaii. thunderstorms knocked out power for thousands and onlookers were stunned to see waterspouts. they ultimately converged into one dramatic water tornado. waterspouts are usually less dangerous than regular tornados and this one quickly dissipated. >> pretty cool to see there in the distance. >> that would had been cool. >> that would be my vacation it rains. i would go to hawaii and it would rain. speaking of weather let's take a look at the wednesday weather for you day. wet day much the east coast. showers and thunderstorms from
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the carolinas all the way up the coast to new england. scattered showers from montana to the dakotas and minneapolis. >> 97 phoenix. 71 in portland. a wet 60 in fargo. 57 in chicago. upper 50s from boston to baltimore. 85 in miami. and 75 in new orleans. well, how about this here in new york it was a gym class that they will soon not forget thanks to one of the hottest singers in the world. ♪ ♪ let's go >> oh, my gosh. >> on h, yeah. >> let's just looking, i have nothing to say. yes indeed the one and only beyonce paid a surprise center of a harlem middle school yesterday sending students there into a frenzy. uh-huh. the kids had been practicing the moves to beyonce's new video made especially for the first lady's antiobesity campaign. peggy taught me that. >> i was going to say, are you
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going to make that noise more? keep it to yourself. beyonce has joined in dancing side by side with the students. no doubt she can move i mean in heels. do you know how hard that is in heels. >> no, you can. >> oh boy and the middle school kids across the country simultaneously took part in the four-minute flash dance. >> all right, this is -- go to break now. >> rob needs a minute. >> i need a minute. >> i need some cold water. >> take it easy. hó
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welcome back, everybody. well, memoirs are a booming business these days. it seems everyone has a story about themselves they want to tell and put out there, but now the classic memoir is getting a little bit of a face-lift. >> yeah a bit of a test. when started to dig in into his family's past he uncovered a fascinating story of his parents' immigration from vietnam after the war. he decided to draw it in pictures. a sort of graphic memoir called "viet america."
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take a look. >> how many people if they look back to the parents was one them born abroad and look back to the grandparents was one of them at least born asfwlaud i think that a lot of us are closer to the immigrant experience than we might readily recognize. it wasn't a very pleasant experience for my parents leaving vietnam and having to give up all of these things. i would imagine for a certain level, like it was difficult for them to talk about these things. i decided to draw it because it was an easier way for me to express their stories p it's a different experience i think if you are writing the story and describing an expression on a person versus literally drawing that expression on a person. i was trying to tell the smallest story possible so i just focused on their lives from growing up in vietnam with the wars backdrop and coming to the states and basically growing up in the states as refugees. when a person sits down and reads a comic, they can read it
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slowly or as quickly as they want and that directly influences the type of experience they have. the more time they spend on each panel or each page or each scene, then you know they're more -- possibly they get out of it. the more poignant it is. the deeper it is. i really love that in the sense of how it makes the median unique for each person. sharing my parents' experience in that sense hopefully will resonate with people more and that's definitely the type of feedback that i've gotten from other people which is really, really beautiful. >> speaking of beautiful here is the book right now and this took three years to illustrate to tell all of the different stories and some people who don't want to sit down with a book, maybe they are more visual they would probably like it. >> pretty cool. a face-lift to the traditional memoir. so a different way to tell a different story. collected these stories back in 2001 so like a multiyear proj t project.
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>> very cool. you are into comics books you will like it. a surgical patch that helps people lose weight. i have got to hear. >> this patch is implanted on the tongue. see how it works and who questioning its safety. more of "world news now" coming up.
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many of us are always looking for new ways to lose weight. some will even try those crazy diets to lose weight in 17 days. >> could be as easy as placing a tiny patch on your tongue. >> reporter: erica was skeptical that this tiny patch would help her lose weight but -- >> when i tried it, i was like this works. >> it is it. >> reporter: the patch now known as the diet tongue patch was invented by dr. nicholas sugay,
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an aesthetic plastic surgeon. he numbs the tongue and then the patch which is made of a material approved for other medical uses is sewn on to the sthung we put four to six stitches right into the patch and a little portion of the tongue to really secure it so it stays there for a month or six weeks. >> reporter: the placement of the patch makes it uncomfortable to eat solid food. >> your tongue does feel like if you want to chew, you'll -- it will get stuck. so you won't be able to eat it. >> reporter: so patients follow a liquid-only diet. that dr. sugay says provides adequate nutrition but restricts calories to 800 a day. other doctors don't doubt patients won't lose weight with the patch -- >> absolutely. >> reporter: -- but are concerned it may be too extreme. dr. howard krein, an ear, nose
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and throat specialist. hasn't seen the patch in person but says the procedure comes with risks. >> certainly anytime that you are invading or stitching into the tongue you have risk of infection. you have risk of swelling. certainly nerve damage or even tissue nuc rosis. >> reporter: and he also questions what if the patch falls off? could it block the airway? he does have patients take an antibiotic just in case of infection. and while he admits the patch is an extreme diet plan, he also says it helps people change their overall behavior. reminding them to eat healthier, even when the patch is removed. dr. krine doesn't buy it. >> i think that there are better ways of losing weight. >> reporter: for erica, after three weeks with the tongue patch, she lost 20 pounds. but she admits --
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>> i would do it again. >> and then you have to keep it off that's problem. the patch goes for $1,8 nun you're interested. don't make fun of it because you don't have problem with weight >> i just think it's crazy. just go to the gym!
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>> reporter: a sketch inspired by the original takes form. >> yes lace. >> a little bit of lace goes over the skirt. >> that's it. >> reporter: michelle and henry roth are designers who sell exclusively for kleinfeld bridal salon. >> prince harry. >> reporter: but now kleinfeld and the roths are working on what will surely be one of their hottest gown ever. an inspired replica of that amazing kate middleton wedding gown. >> she walks out, we all went awe. you said -- >> grace kelly. that was the immediate reaction. >> and i said extraordinary, simplicity with striking impact. >> reporter: in the workspace the pattern starts to show a gun in t -- a gown in the make. it's 10:10 a.m. >> four hour, ten minutes. >> reporter: and already got -- >> already got the basics of it down. >> reporter: the roths examine every tiny detail of kate's dress like detectives.
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from the neckline to the sleeves to the pleats and the skirt. and out in the store the kate dress is a game changer. >> at first i was really against lace but after seeing her in it, it just really opened my eyes to lace for the first time. >> reporter: as seamstresses work around the clock carefully cutting, handsewing applying every last piece of lace. wait, watch and worry to pull off that timeless look in record time. >> go ahead and say it you didn't like it. >> no. >> i'm putting it out there, peggy. don't be scared. >> everybody loved it but i was slightly disappointed. i was expecting a little bit more and you see i worked on it myself and that was probably part of the problem. i thought should have had a little bit more of va, va, voom. and a very close knockach of princess grace. is she looked beautiful. i don't have to e-mail us. she really looked stunning. >> didn't do enough for you. >> a little more something there. >> and if you wanted -- a woman modeling the replica yesterday. if you want the real thing,
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this morning on "world news now," inside the military mission that took out osama bin laden. new details about the last moments of public enemy number one. >> and how can pakistani leaders not know about this secret hideout? it's wednesday, may 4th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning. i'm peggy bunker. >> and i'm rob nelson. we're also finding out about life inside that bin laden compound. there are emerging details this morning about the terrorist wives and the way bin laden treated women in general. some very interesting details about that. >> yeah, absolutely. also coming up, bin laden's death brought out the patriotism of many americans including a student in pennsylvania. take a look at this guy here.
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see how his red, white and blue face got him in trouble. he was just trying to express his spirit but didn't go over well at school. >> i find that story so hard to believe but we'll get to that. plus, we'll also get to the uproar aimed at sony. how the millions and millions -- almost 100 million in fact, of playstation users get hacked. and why didn't sony do more to protect all of those customers' very private information? >> credit card information. but first bring you the latest that is emerging in the official account of that raid that killed osama bin laden. >> we're now learning that al qaeda leader was not armed when he was shot to death by the navy s.e.a.l.'s team 6. t.j. winick is joining us from ground zero with more on this developing story. hi, t.j. >> reporter: good morning, rob and peggy. the crowds here at ground zero were a little bit small or tuesday but there is still a sense of celebration. at the same time that is coupled with the realization that the war on terror does not end with
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the demise of the death of osama bin laden. >> reporter: we're learning more about the navy s.e.a.l. raid that killed osama bin laden in the luxury-built hideout. >> was shot in the leg but not killed. bin laden was then shot and killed. he was not armed. >> reporter: how much did pakistan know about bin laden's location and when did they know it? u.s. officials now believe bin laden lived in his compound for the last five or six years. >> i think they are trying to determine themselves whether or not there were individuals within the pakistani government, the military intelligent services who were knowledgeable about bin laden's residence there. >> reporter: former pakistani president pervez musharraf strongly denied the charges. >> any expressions that the pakistan military or the intelligence knew about him and that he was staying there, this is absolutely wrong. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence analysts are combing through computer hard drives and papers found at bin laden's layer that could provide a treasure trove of information about al qaeda
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and its pakistani connections. >> what they're looking for are the planned attacks that have been submitted for his approval and they're looking for. it's where the money comes and where the money may now be sitting. >> reporter: and then the question to whether or not release gruesome photos of bin laden's corpse. the white house wants to debunk a myth already building that he is still alive. at the same time there is already concern about a possible retaliatory strike. according to a "time" magazine interview with a cia director, leon panetta, sunday's raid was actually kept a secret from the pakistani leadership for fear it could jeopardize the mission. rob and peggy. >> thanks, t.j. now speaking of pakistan, we all found this pretty curious this morning. thought we would point it out to you. as t.j. mentioned, we now know that bin laden was most likely living in that compound in pakistan for several years. some say as many as five or six years. take a listen from this. from hbo's "realtime with bill
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maher" aired back in october of 2008 it features our very own christiane amanpour and comedian gary shanley. >> so isn't osama bin laden laughing his ass off? you've met him. >> i haven't met him. i wish i had met him. i wish i had done an interview. no, i wish. >> in a cave somewhere? >> i talked to somebody very knowledgeable. well, she doesn't think -- this woman -- >> by the way, sarah palin -- >> kabul? >> christiane has good sources. oh, by the way, a team of scientists and students at ucla also came close to predicting bin laden's whereabouts. in 2009 using some satellite imagery and other technology they said he was likely in a walled compound in a pakistani city. but their predicted location turned out to be about 300 miles off. >> can you believe that? that was back in 2008 that episode. interesting. we're learning also more about that devoted wife who was with bin laden at the time of his death. the young woman is now getting medical treatment after being shot in the leg during the raid. here is brian ross. >> reporter: bin laden's family
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occupied the second and third floor of this sprawling hideout in pakistan, where one of his sons was killed and his wife injured in sunday's raid. his wife was the youngest of his wives. 29-year-old amal ahmed abdul fatah. identified by authorities as the woman pictured in this yemeni passport that a pakistani tv station said was found in the compound after the raid. amal ahmed was in the bedroom with bin laden when the navy s.e.a.l.s closed in. >> bin laden's wife rushed the u.s. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed. >> reporter: bin laden married amal ahmed at the age of 15. she was a gift to him from a yemeni family. >> she was a very young woman by the account of the bodyguard who brought her to meet bin laden from the tribal family that had presented her to bin laden for marriage. >> reporter: over the years, bin laden had at least 11 children with his wives. >> he married very young. first a cousin from syria, then a couple of very well-educated women from saudi arabia. >> reporter: there are no known
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photographs of the other wives and his former sister-in-law, carmen bin laden, told diane sawyer that bin laden did not like women to talk to him. >> my brother-in-law was standing at the stairs of the plane. they came and said, hi. and you know he looked at me and said, don't talk. >> reporter: by the time bin laden moved to his mansion in abbottabad, he was left only with amal ahmed. he had divorced one of his wives to marry her and three others had moved to syria. the injury to bin laden's wife's leg is not considered to be serious. and she and her children are said to be in pakistani custody. brian ross, abc news, new york. likely presidential candidate mitt romney is among the republicans praising the obama administration for the successful raid on bin laden. at a meeting of small business owners in new hampshire, romney said the president deserved credit for approving the high-risk mission. romney told reporters in new hampshire, quote, the right thing is that we got the bad guy. in other news now, owners of
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the west virginia mine where 29 workers lost their lives last year are in trouble yet again. that's after a surprise inspection revealed some pretty outrageous safety violations. miners were working without mandatory ventilation equipment and regulators say though conditions could have led to another tragedy like the one at upper big branch. the mine's owner expressed disappointment in all of this and promised to comply with safety requirements. and an update now about the six boy scouts from louisiana and their two adult leaders. they're safe and sound this morning. this after a dramatic rescue from a forest in southwest arkansas. jason peterson from katv in little rock who were there when the scouts reunited with their families. >> i just want to see his face. give him a hug and than he's warm and dry. >> reporter: this is the face wendy wanted to see. it belongs to ian, one of six scouts, who got an unexpected helicopter ride out of the washataw national forest. >> that was their first helicopter ride and so that was
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a highlight of the trip now, i'm sure. >> reporter: it was not an easy mission for guard pilot david speck and co-pilot todd adams. at dawn they located a landing area next to a still swollen creek near the scouts and set down. minutes later the 13 and 14-year-olds walked a short distance and boarded the helicopter. finishing a 26-mile journey that started last thursday and was stopped by bad weather. it was an exciting ride to safety for a group that insists it was never in danger. >> we had the ability to create fresh water. we had food. we had shelter. we had everything we needed, so it was just a matter of waiting mother nature out. she came out a little early and put us a little late. >> it's really beautiful, actually. seeing the hills and the mountains like it is, it is really cool. you can't really see that in louisiana. >> reporter: ian says he and his fellow scouts had their survival skills tested while waiting family members endured tests of patience and faith. >> last night, i was very anxious. we kind of figure that today was the day that it was going to happen.
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>> they told me, that just like me, they had a character-building experience. >> reporter: so just like you were being tested, they were being tested? >> right. >> reporter: in pike county, jason peterson for abc news. >> that's so great to see, but of course they were prepared. they're the boy scouts. they can make fire, matches, whatever. here is your wednesday weather. cooler showers from the carolinas to maine. periods of heavy rain and thunderstorms around philadelphia, new york, and boston. showers from the northern rockies into the dakotas and minnesota. warming up and drying out in the pacific northwest. >> 63 in seattle. 66 in boise and near 100 out in phoenix. 57 in detroit. and 70s from omaha to dallas. new york gets up to about 58. atlanta 68. miami 85. well, you're supposed to take a bite out of crime, not the crime fighter. but a lawless creep in florida came pretty close. >> the sheriff's office in gainesville got a call when a ten-foot alligator wandered into someone's yard. look at that thing. the bold gator crawled right up to the parked squad car, chomped down on the bumper and refused to let go.
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welcome back. well, there are new details now emerging about that massive video game security breach that we told you about. as you know, sony admitted that 77 million playstation users had their personal data stolen. >> and now they're saying 25 million more might be in trouble. the bbc's rory cellan-jones has the latest on how all of this happened. >> the time has come for each of us to choose a path.
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>> reporter: everquest an online world web player spend many hours competing and interacting with other gamers from their home computers. but now this and other games played on sony's online entertainment system are out of action. after the japanese firm revealed a second major cyberattack. sony's second in command bowed in apology on sunday. to 77 million users to the playstation network whose data was stolen by hackers and now the crisis is deepened as it emerges that another network was also hacked. the millions who use this sony online entertainment network to play games like everquest from their pcs may have thought they were safe from the hacker attack which has affected playstation network users, but now when they type "everquest.com" into their browsers they're taken to this, a warning from sony, that their information, too, may have been obtained by the hackers.
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25 million users of the network have been sent an e-mail warning that their names, passwords and other data is at risk and sony says some 23,000 bank and credit card details from 2007 may also have been hacked. >> i would be telling sony that they need to think about checking their infrastructure, make sure that they're patched and fully secured as well as making sure the information that was stolen and in future attacks that is encrypted and properly secured so it will not be able to be used in further attacks and in attacking their user base as well. >> reporter: sony is the latest in a number of japanese firms to be accused of being slow to disclose bad news. now the job of reassuring millions of its customers about their security has got a whole lot harder. rory cellan-jones, bbc news. >> as you can imagine already this thing will play now the court a little bit on behalf of about a million users in canada. they've already filed a lawsuit that could end up costing sony about a billion dollars. >> that's right, well with so many breaches, also customers in
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austria, germany, the netherlands and spain also affected a lot of financial information, as the piece just said, from back in 2007. >> that's crazy. these hackers out there, it's scary what they can do, man, wow. >> that's true. coming up next the personal crisis shania twain calls, though, an important wake-up call. >> it's good to hear from her and also last night's big elimination round on "dancing with the stars." who got the boot? we will let you know coming up in "the skinny," coming up.
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♪ skinny ♪ so skinny okay, did you see it last night? speaking of skinny, a lot of people losing weight as they're dancing away pounds of weight on "dancing with the stars," but last night was the big elimination round and guess who got the boot? let's take a look. ♪ she can shake it but that's all that she could do. >> is that right? hey, hey, hey. >> and she had a couple of good quotes but one she said -- one said, shake what your money gave you and she said that didn't give me these. >> you have to like it. >> she admitted it. that little yellow outfit was something else but this is what she had to say what when she was
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heading out. >> i am not the best dancer but i'm the best mom and i'm coming home and i'm back to being a mom. >> she said she was really happy she lasted seven weeks. she's married to hank bassett. that's her signature move. i thought i saw that on the e.! channel on "kendra." >> that's the universal nightclub move. come on now. >> she wish her the best. she will go home to hank, her hubby. >> congrats to her. nice run. all right, abc news now, we have a new face joining "good morning america" josh eliot. on "good morning america." he's the new news anchor. replacing juju chang. yesterday -- his first day was monday but of course monday was bin laden news day so we couldn't give him the full welcome that they wanted to but the full welcome yesterday. they did a clip with him practicing saying "good morning america" and he had a little bit of star power help as he gets ready. take a look. >> you're stressing too much. >> yeah. >> just relax. just give it to them simple. and "good morning america."
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>> "good morning america." >> george clooney and go. >> "good morning america." >> wow. why don't we sing it. ♪ good morning ♪ good morning ♪ morning ♪ america >> okay you are hurting yourself. >> that was a few weeks ago when they taped that. but i thought it was really, really funny. jamie is so funny, effortlessly so funny. welcome it our new colleague over there at "gma." >> get hr on the phones. >> shania twain, she is talking about her divorce from lange her husband of 14 years. she's beautiful. we can say that for sure. a lot of people miss shania. she's not been out talking about the personal disaster that she calls it a real tragedy in her life but she talked to oprah. she sat down with mer. let's take a listen to that. >> i've come a long way since this happened to me -- >> yes. >> -- and i didn't like where i
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was. i was angry. i'm sitting there like -- i didn't want to be like that. >> now interestingly enough, that's her new husband frederic thiebaud. marie anne-marie was his form r former -- wife who was shania twain's former best friend and close assistant. marie -- is it ann marie, no, marie ann had an affair with shania's husband. so they basically switched partners. it's like a soap opera except it's real life. so they have essentially switched. she's doing well. she needed the wake-up call. she's back on her feet and that she is very, very happy. >> she fell in love. i didn't realize a tragic upbringing. her parents died when she was young. >> a car crash. >> i didn't know her backstory but i'm glad she's happy, that's good. >> she raised her siblings which is amazing. >> lighter note here. got lost in the big news. but mariah carey and her husband nick cannon welcomed twins in the world on april 30th, and get this -- this is very interesting. they decided which is their annual tradition, they renewed their vows and april 30th which happened to be their third wedding anniversary, still in the hospital and guess who performed the ceremony? that's right, al sharpton was in
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the hospital and helped the couple renew their vows, so congrats to the twins. their names are not official but will both begin with the letter "m." imagine that. to the twins. their names are not official but will both begin with the letter "m." imagine that. what is that? it's you!
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it's me? alright emma, i know it's not your favorite but it's time for your medicine, okay? you ready? one, two, three. [ both ] ♪ emma, emma bo-bemma ♪ banana-fana-fo-femma ♪ fee-fi-fo-femma ♪ em-ma very good sweety, how do you feel?
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good. yeah? you did a really good job, okay? let's go back to drawing. and here are some stories to watch today on abc news. and here are some stories to watch today on abc news. mass transit security is a big topic today on capitol hill. lawmakers will discuss vulnerabilities and public transportation with federal administrators who oversee airlines and transit. also small cars here in great demand. sales of compacts were up 33% last month over last year. overall sales of cars and trucks are also up. a sign of economic recovery. and homeland security secretary janet napolitano will brief senators today on border security issues in the southwest. some border patrol admit they spend less time looking for terrorist the and more time stopping smugglers. and finally, when it was announced that we had hunted down osama bin laden, america rejoiced.
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people everywhere wanted to show their support for their country. >> including a pennsylvania fifth grader who painted his face, red, white and blue, which get this, actually got him kicked out of school. >> can you believe it? >> get this whtm's al gazoza measure from dauphin. >> reporter: he wore the colors of his marlins little league team. earlier in the day he went to school wearing the color his country in honor of the earthly departure of osama bin laden. >> this morning we decided to put -- to paint a little american flag on his face, usa on one cheek. american flag on another. and then 5/1/11 on his forehead. >> reporter: but very early in the school day, jennifer tressler says she got a call that the principal lopez decided that conor would have to wash off of the face-painting. tressler said it's not coming off, i'm taking him home instead. spokesperson shannon leib explains the principal's rationale. we don't allow face painting of
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any kind. it was disruptive. kids were laughing at it and pointing at him. we did not remove him from the school. it was his mother's decision to remove him rather than have him wash his face. >> nobody was laughing about it. other kids thought it was great. and the teacher, from what i hear, also did not have a problem with it. >> reporter: tressler said there was nothing in the code of conduct that says you can't wear things on your face. and she says conor has worn other things in the past that could have been construed as disruptive but nothing was ever done. >> he's worn a big huge green tie for st. patrick's day. santa claus hats for christmas. >> it seems a little much. >> especially on the day when all the flags came out. everyone was really celebrating. it was really a day -- everybody was kind of doing that. >> right. oh, oh, my. >> jimmy, you look great. staying in the spirit as well. you are so patriotic. you know you have a good canvass though. you have a good canvass for the whole flag. that looks good to you. >> that was the christmas card before the news of bin laden
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